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The Spur Award for Best Western Novel is a prize given by the Western Writers of America as part of the annual Spur Awards. The category was introduced in 1953, when it was known simply as the "Novel" award. A second category for novel-length prose fiction, the Historical Novel award, was introduced in 1972.
Jackson Cole, (pseudonym of Peter B. Germano) Ralph Compton (1934–1999) Robert J. Conley (1940–2014) Will Cook (William Everett Cook) (1921–1964) Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886–1940) James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) Barry Cord, (pseudonym of Peter B. Germano) Ralph Cotton.
Western fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West frontier and typically set from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. [1] Well-known writers of Western fiction include Zane Grey from the early 20th century and Louis L'Amour from the mid-20th century. [2][3] The genre peaked around the early 1960s, largely due ...
Terry C. Johnston. Terry Conrad Johnston[1] (1 January 1947 – 25 March 2001) was an American Western fiction author who wrote 31 novels and had more than 10 million books in print. [2]
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986), better known as L. Ron Hubbard, was an American pulp fiction author. He wrote in a wide variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, adventure fiction, aviation, travel, mystery, western, and romance. His United States publisher and distributor is Galaxy Press. [ 1 ]
The Able McLaughlins. List of Ace western double titles. All the Pretty Horses (novel) Angle of Repose. Apache (novel) The Apple Dumpling Gang. Around the World in Eighty Days. The Arrivals. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (novel)
The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.
He particularly delighted in the stories and novels of the ten-years-older, recently deceased Bolesław Prus [95] [96] (who also had visited Zakopane [97]), read everything by his fellow victim of Poland's 1863 Uprising—"my beloved Prus"—that he could get his hands on, and pronounced him "better than Dickens"—a favourite English novelist ...